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BWW Reviews: New York Opera Returns to the City Center

BWW Reviews: New York Opera Returns to the City Center

by Scott Frost — April 15, 2013

Since moving out of the Lincoln Center two years ago, the New York City Opera has taken to playing its productions at a number of venues throughout the city, including the Brooklyn Academy of Music, but Sunday marked a homecoming for the company.

BWW Reviews: FRANCESCA DA RIMINI at the Met

BWW Reviews: FRANCESCA DA RIMINI at the Met

by Scott Frost — March 8, 2013

We all sat waiting anxiously for the curtain to rise on Riccardo Zandonai's 'Francesca da Rimini' after almost a 27 year hiatus on the Met stage; but with each passing act, one could sense the audience waiting for the closing curtain just as intently.

BWW Reviews: TURN OF THE SCREW as Told Through a Horror Movie Lens

BWW Reviews: TURN OF THE SCREW as Told Through a Horror Movie Lens

by Scott Frost — February 26, 2013

New York City Opera's production of Britten's chamber opera 'The Turn of the Screw' opened Sunday afternoon to a full house at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Howard Gilman Opera House as the Prologue, played by Dominic Armstrong, fills us in on the back story as it is played out onstage.

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